Population of Europe (The Making of Europe) - Softcover

Livi-Bacci, Massimo Livi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631218815 ISBN 13: 9780631218814

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Synopsis

This book describes the history of the inter-relationships in Europe between population, land, resources, and disease.

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From the Back Cover:

This book presents the reader with a fascinating history of the inter-relationships between population, land, resources, and disease in Europe. Professor Livi Bacci integrates the key component of culture to provide a vivid social and narrative history from the first peopling of Europe through centuries of famine, hunger and premature death, up to present-day low mortality, negligible hunger and population stability.

The author focuses on the determinants of epidemics and disease and also on the factors of climate, space and land and their impacts on food and energy supply. The book is accessibly written and translated for the student and general reader. Throughout the book, Professor Livi Bacci brings the human element to the forefront of population history creating an appealing narrative for all interested readers of this subject.

About the Author:

Massimo Livi Bacci is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence. From 1989 to 1993 he was President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. He has taught or held research fellowships at universities all over the world, including the Collège de France, the Colegio de Mexico, Princeton University, University of California at Berkeley, and Brown University. His previous books include A Concise History of World Population (Blackwell, 2nd edition 1996).
Cynthia and Carl Ipsen live in Bloomington, Indiana. Carl Ipsen has also published Dictating Demography: The Problem of Population in Fascist Italy (1996).

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0631218815
• ISBN 13: 9780631218814
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236